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Also work and time was cheaper then, they could spend centuries building the same cathedral with nobody complaining about the ballooning price.
by bdauvergne 7y ago
Also work and time was cheaper then, they could spend centuries building the same cathedral with nobody complaining about the ballooning price.
- Udik 7y agoIf it took centuries there is a reason.
- bdauvergne 7y agoMostly one: they were patient.
- Udik 7y agoI imagine (but I have no real information on this, so I might be wrong) that cathedrals were always works in progress, on which you could throw a small percentage of your surplus in the good years, and keep idle in the bad ones (or maybe also a bit the opposite, in anti-cyclic fashion). See how the Sagrada Familia is being built in Barcelona (and has been, for 137 years): with an annual construction and maintenance budget of around 25 million, a very small yearly amount for such a huge project.
- jonhendry18 7y ago"nobody complaining about the ballooning price." Very few people would have been in a position to complain about the ballooning price.